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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving the stabilisation process - part 1
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 07:36:59
Message-Id: e141f4b1-8e85-073e-36f4-b18151f0d979@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving the stabilisation process - part 1 by Kent Fredric
1 On 25/11/16 15:54, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 06:41:20 +1100
3 > Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Example atom list from a bug with amd64, arm, and x86 in CC:
6 >>
7 >> =app-foo/bar-1.2.3 # will be stabilised on amd64, arm, and x86
8 >> =app-foo/baz-2.3.4 amd64 x86 # will be stabilised on only amd64 and x86
9 >
10 > I was doing this in the past, but there's a reason I stopped:
11 >
12 > Bugzilla-enforced wordwrap ( at least, this is very strict on the bugzilla-email relay )
13 >
14 >> =app-foo/bar-1.2.3 # will be stabilised on amd64, arm, and x86
15 >
16 > Could become more like
17 >
18 >> =app-foo/bar-1.2.3 # will be stabilised on amd64,
19 >> arm, and x86
20 >
21 >
22 > A literal example of an email I received for a bug I filed ( via an alias ) is attached.
23 >
24 >
25 > The example I give did not render poorly on bugzilla
26 > ( https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599550 ), but I suspect people
27 > who do AT probably prefer their notification emails about needed AT not
28 > to be useless.
29 >
30
31 Does it matter if it gets wrapped a bit strangely in an email? Nobody
32 should be actioning a stabilisation request based on the contents of a
33 bugmail, as it doesn't necessarily reflect the most up-to-date information.